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This insect has me stumped. Its cute little face reminds me of a bee, but its body suggests a wasp, but there are bees that convincingly look like wasps and vice versa! This tiny cutie was fussing about on some carrot tops (Platysace linearifolia) and was a challenge to photograph because of its size and flightiness. I managed a few photos from different angles in the hopes someone could identify it for me! Found in Springwood, Blue Mountains, NSW.
A few hundred insects smashed into the windshield spraying all of their body contents and reducing visibility.
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Lepidoptera : Geometridae
Another pretty moth.
Could be Nemoria sp.
reference: bugguide.net/node/view/374
Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids or bush-crickets. There are more than 6,400 species. Part of the suborder Ensifera, it's the only family in the superfamily Tettigonioidea. The name is derived from the genus Tettigonia, first described by Linnaeus in 1748. They are also known as long-horned grasshoppers, although they are more closely related to crickets and weta than to grasshoppers. Many tettigoniids exhibit mimicry and camouflage, commonly with shapes and colors similar to leaves.
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Two walking-stick insects mating in a garden in McDonald's Corners, Ontario Canada. The small brown one is the male and the much larger green one is the female.
This large ichnuemon wasp bores deep into wood to lay its eggs on the larvae of wood-wasps. It is one of Europe's largest ichnuemons. A wood-wasp has layed its eggs deep inside the wood where it should be safe from predators and parasites, but as usual in nature, something amazing like this ichnuemon, with an incredibly long ovipositor (for drilling into wood and laying eggs through) evolves and can find and exploit even the most difficultly placed prey.